#avery

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#always #brutality #european #haunted #heard

This war is not about slavery. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#slavery #war

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! ↗

— Bob Marley

#free #mental #minds #none #our

Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. ↗

— David Wilmot

#any #congress #exclude #future #mexico

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado. ↗

— Menander

#bravery #choice #thy

The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #bravery #coming #degrees #dinner

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. ↗

— Huey Newton

#given #moment #people #slavery #slaves

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. ↗

— George S. Patton

#brave #brave man #bravery #definition #fear

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#bravery #courage #higher #instinct #moral

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ↗

— Plato

#arises #democracy #dictatorship #extreme #form